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citation cartels

citation cartels is the plural of citation cartel.

Meaning of citation cartel

Noun

citation cartel (plural citation cartels)

  1. (derogatory) A group of academic authors who collude to egregiously cite one another's publications in order to increase their citation counts.

Questions about citation cartels

What is citation cartels the plural of?
Citation cartels is the plural of citation cartel.

Words near citation cartels in the dictionary

  1. citals
  2. Citalá
  3. citatepine
  4. citation
  5. citation cartel
  6. citation cartels
  7. citation cord
  8. citation cords
  9. citation form
  10. citation forms
  11. citation needed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: citation cartels (page history and authors); citation cartel (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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